Sam Altman Trades Barbs With Elon Musk and Anthropic Over GPT-5.6, Apple Suit
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Updated · Business Insider · Jul 16
Sam Altman Trades Barbs With Elon Musk and Anthropic Over GPT-5.6, Apple Suit
3 articles · Updated · Business Insider · Jul 16
Summary
Altman reignited public fights this week, mocking Musk over Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit against OpenAI and taking fresh shots at Anthropic’s model rollout and branding.
Apple’s July 11 complaint triggered the Musk clash: Musk called him “Scam Altman” and tied the suit to old grievances, while Altman replied by touting GPT-5.6 Sol and later flagged SpaceXAI privacy concerns as “concerning.”
Anthropic became Altman’s second target after its ad about “hard questions” and AI job loss; he said it looked like satire and mocked the company’s access limits and shifting safeguards around Fable 5.
OpenAI says it is unaware of evidence supporting Apple’s complaint, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has not publicly responded; despite the sparring, Altman and Musk both praised a new AI safety essay by DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis.